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compiledkernel · 08-01-2007

Extremism at its finest.

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church

After having been forced to watch a variety of video (for a research project that I am helping a friend with) of Fred Phelps and his congregation foment ideas, slogans and banners denoting phrases such as "Thank God for 9/11", "God hates fags," "AIDS cures fags," and "Fags die, God laughs (or mocks)," and claims that God will punish homosexuals. This stuff is utterly debase of any human value that I can detect.

Rev. Phelps has been quoted or attributed as saying

"America is doomed and cursed by God irreversibly".

"1.07 billion members of that monstrous machine called the Roman Catholic Church. Every last one of them going to hell".

"This is the hypocritical, fag-infested, fag-run United States of America and we're supposed to respect that fag rag flag?"

"Everyone who is not me is a Satan-worshipping Fag enabler!"

"The Lord God Almighty killed [the people who died on 9/11], looked at them in the face, laughed and mocked at each one of them as he cast each one of them into hell."

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Phelps and his followers have over the last recent years, protested at many soldier funerals with banners and signs of "Thank God for 9/11" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers". To what end does such Christian Extremism achieve? For whom, and why? Is this kind of Extremism necessary?

Example Video:
YouTube - Evil Reverend Fred Phelps Diatribe Against Stewart/Colbert
YouTube - Fred Phelps supporter on Hannity & Colmes
YouTube - Fred Phelps' scary granddaughters
YouTube - Fred Phelps Jr.'s Comeuppance
YouTube - Fred Phelps gets heckled 2004 DNC Boston

External Links
God Hates America -- Westboro Baptist Church Commentary on the USA
WARNING PAGE

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compiledkernel Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 145	Christian Extremism: Good or Bad? Extremism at its finest. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church After having been forced to watch a variety of video (for a research project that I am helping a friend with) of Fred Phelps and his congregation foment ideas, slogans and banners denoting phrases such as "Thank God for 9/11", "God hates fags," "AIDS cures fags," and "Fags die, God laughs (or mocks)," and claims that God will punish homosexuals. This stuff is utterly debase of any human value that I can detect. Rev. Phelps has been quoted or attributed as saying "America is doomed and cursed by God irreversibly". "1.07 billion members of that monstrous machine called the Roman Catholic Church. Every last one of them going to hell". "This is the hypocritical, fag-infested, fag-run United States of America and we're supposed to respect that fag rag flag?" "Everyone who is not me is a Satan-worshipping Fag enabler!" "The Lord God Almighty killed [the people who died on 9/11], looked at them in the face, laughed and mocked at each one of them as he cast each one of them into hell." ----- Phelps and his followers have over the last recent years, protested at many soldier funerals with banners and signs of "Thank God for 9/11" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers". To what end does such Christian Extremism achieve? For whom, and why? Is this kind of Extremism necessary? Example Video: YouTube - Evil Reverend Fred Phelps Diatribe Against Stewart/Colbert YouTube - Fred Phelps supporter on Hannity & Colmes YouTube - Fred Phelps' scary granddaughters YouTube - Fred Phelps Jr.'s Comeuppance YouTube - Fred Phelps gets heckled 2004 DNC Boston External Links God Hates America -- Westboro Baptist Church Commentary on the USA WARNING PAGE
compiledkernel Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 145	From the Kernel - in drivers/char/rio/list.h /* Will God see it within his heart to forgive us for this thing that we have created?